Aboriginal Studies provides an integrated, progressive exploration of Indigenous cultures, society and epistemologies and Australian race relations historically and in contemporary Australian society. Aboriginal Studies places Indigenous experience and Indigenous conceptual frameworks at the centre of the program. All courses are taught by academic staff of Nura Gili with input from elders from the local Indigenous community and Indigenous specialists. Aboriginal Studies critiques received notions of Australian history and identity, policy and contemporary relations between non-Indigenous and Indigenous Australians.

Aboriginal Studies may be taken as a major sequence. This requires the completion of 36 units of credit in Aboriginal Studies’ approved courses (listed below). Students must complete the program’s two core courses at Level 1 (ATSI1001 and ATSI1002) and two core courses at Level 2 (ATSI2001 and ATSI2002) as well as at least two Level 3 Aboriginal Studies courses, at least one in session one (ATSI3001; ATSI3005) and one in session two (ATSI3002; ATSI3003; ATSI3004).